Saluda Grade

  • Saluda Grade
Clinician
David O’Brien and Drayton Blackgrove
Location
Anderson Room
Time
Fri 1:30pm
Clinic#
23

Saluda Grade is the steepest railroad grade on a class 1 railroad in the US. David will talk about the history of the grade and how the Southern Railway operated both climbing and descending the grade. The Saluda depot and museum in Saluda, NC has a model of the line from Saluda to Melrose.